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EdD Gifted Education Specialization - Apply Today!
Our next EdD Cohort of Curriculum and Instruction, Specializing in Gifted Education begins Summer 2023!
- Earn an Education Doctorate of Curriculum & Instruction, specializing in Gifted Education, structured around the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate.
- Start with 2 weeks of synchronous, face-to-face (typically on-campus) courses in June 2023.
- Participate in virtual, online courses during Fall, Winter, and Spring courses, with both synchronous and asynchronous class sessions.
- Most students complete this within three years and are simultaneously full-time working professionals and full-time doctoral students.
- Work with your advisor to complete coursework to earn either a Gifted Core, Gifted Specialist, or Gifted Director endorsement from the Colorado Department of Education.
- Gifted Education EdD Cohort members receive a tuition discount.
- Email idge@du.edu to learn more about this program.
Visit https://morgridge.du.edu/apply to apply for a degree in Curriculum & Instruction today!
Specialization in Gifted Education (+24 credits)
- CUI 4401 - Psychological Aspects of the Gifted
- CUI 4402 - Curriculum for Gifted Learners
- CUI 4403 - Instructional Strategies for Gifted Learners
- CUI 4404 - Twice-Exceptional Students
- CUI 4407 - Special Topics in Identification of the Gifted
- CUI 4408 - Creativity: Theory and Practice
- CUI 4410 - Program Development, Leadership, and Communication
- CUI 4160 - Race, Class, and Gender
- Eligible for CDE Gifted Core Endorsements
- *CUI 4405 - Gifted Education Practicum
- *CFSP 4302 - Special Education and Gifted Education Law
- * Also required for the CDE Gifted Specialist Endorsement
Gifted Education Director Specialization (+30 Gifted; +14 Admin)
- CUI 4400 - Nature and Needs of Gifted Learners
- CUI 4401 - Psychological Aspects of the Gifted
- CUI 4402 - Curriculum for Gifted Learners
- CUI 4403 - Instructional Strategies for Gifted Learners
- CUI 4404 - Twice-Exceptional Students
- CUI 4405 - Gifted Education Practicum
- CUI 4407 - Special Topics in Identification of the Gifted
- CUI 4408 - Creativity: Theory and Practice
- CUI 4410 - Program Development, Leadership, and Communication
- CFSP 4302 - Special Education and Gifted Education Law
- +Admin 4812 - Perspectives in District Leadership
- +Admin 4835 - Leading Teaching and Learning
- +Admin 4817 - Administrative Internship: District
- +Also required for CDE Gifted Director Endorsements